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“Nothing was solved, only accelerated”: Contemporary Berlin Novels as Gentrifictions
Stockholm University, Faculty of Humanities, Department of Slavic and Baltic Studies, Finnish, Dutch, and German.ORCID iD: 0000-0003-1053-3655
2024 (English)In: Narrative (Columbus, Ohio), ISSN 1063-3685, E-ISSN 1538-974X, Vol. 32, no 1, p. 60-79Article in journal (Refereed) Published
Abstract [en]

As a contribution to the growing scholarly debate on literary representations of gentrification, this article explores a tendency of contemporary, Berlin-set fiction to depict accelerating gentrification processes as an imminent apocalypse. While earlier gentrification fiction frequently centered on the struggles of a male character, this article turns to recent female-authored and female-centered narratives of gentrification, thus highlighting the relevance of gender for literary gentrification studies. Based on readings of four novels by German and US-American authors, the main contribution of the article is the delineation of a new hybrid subgenre of gentrification fiction and dystopian fiction—the accelerated gentrifiction. A further major finding is the identification of a standardized female gentrifier character type as an essential feature of this subgenre. The relative flatness of these protagonists results from their shared lack of action and emotional response when facing the consequences of complex social and ecological issues such as accelerated gentrification.

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2024. Vol. 32, no 1, p. 60-79
Keywords [en]
gentrification fiction, dystopia, Berlin, genre, character type, gender, accelerated capitalism
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General Literature Studies
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URN: urn:nbn:se:su:diva-225467DOI: 10.1353/nar.2024.a916605ISI: 001146275400001Scopus ID: 2-s2.0-85182569009OAI: oai:DiVA.org:su-225467DiVA, id: diva2:1828412
Available from: 2024-01-16 Created: 2024-01-16 Last updated: 2024-02-13Bibliographically approved

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